Practice Index

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Cornish plan to tackle appointment pressures The county of Cornwall is considering a radical system to change the management of practice appointments. The proposals, reported in the Health Service Journal, would create central hubs for same-day appointments. Planners are set to reach a decision next week.

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Practice Index

JANUARY 9, 2025

He promised millions more appointments, offered close to home through community diagnosis centres and the development of one stop clinics. Delyth Jewell, a Plaid Cymru member of the Senedd, said: Patients are finding it difficult to get appointments.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 14, 2025

Forwarding urgent messages to a triage nurse can help determine whether a patient needs an appointment, urgent care, or an ER visit. At each visit, have someone on your staff remind patients that they can use the portal to schedule appointments, request medication refills, and access lab results.

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Practice Index

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It states: “We acknowledge the efforts of staff to increase the number of appointments for their patients. The post Primary care news round-up (24th October to 30th October 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The annual report from the CQC highlights shortages of GPs.

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Practice Index

JULY 11, 2024

ADHD is a factor in missed appointments According to a new study in Scotland, patients with ADHD are much more likely than others to miss practice appointments. Adult patients with ADHD are highly likely to miss appointments, while children and adolescents also frequently miss practice visits. skills and knowledge.”

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Guideway Care

JULY 3, 2024

The healthcare industry attempts to enhance patient satisfaction in hospitals through the implementation of the 5 Ps of nursing rounding. The 5 Ps The five Ps in the model for nursing rounding are Pain, Position, Personal needs, Proximity, and Patient Education.

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Practice Index

APRIL 11, 2024

Right care, first time Practice managers are launching a major campaign to tackle public frustration at the delays in gaining GP appointments. Missed appointments Through displaying a daily dashboard, a practice has taken steps to raise patient awareness of the impact of not keeping appointments.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 29, 2024

The practice attracted media attention last week after the relatives of a 95-year-old patient took to TikTok to complain about spending four days trying to get an appointment for her. UK best for same-day practice appointments General practice in the UK leads the world in providing same-day appointments.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Over the 14 years that led up to 2019, the number of appointments per patient remained much the same, but the length of time per consultation increased by nearly half. GP appointments reaching “tipping point” Practice list sizes have ballooned in the last decade while GP numbers have fallen.

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Practice Index

MAY 23, 2024

BMA moves to vote on GP contract protest Doctors may limit their daily appointments to 25 as part of protest action against this year’s contract. In a poll, it found widespread backing for flexibility over appointments. In a poll, it found widespread backing for flexibility over appointments.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 12, 2024

The ability to “chat” with consultants while the patient is with me at an appointment. Digital X-rays have turned radiologists — once valued colleagues with whom you would round post call — into mere digital signatures. The EMR can be magic, a wealth of information literally retrieved with fingertips.

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Practice Index

JULY 4, 2024

Doctors worry about safety because of inadequate appointment times In a survey for the Royal College of GPs, most GPs feel they don’t have enough time to undertake adequate assessment and treatment of patients, and report excessive workloads. Practice appointments “exceed ambitions” Practices delivered nearly 30.5

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Dispute over growing appointment numbers GP and NHS leaders have clashed over another upsurge in appointment requests. NHS England says the nearly 26 million appointments in December demonstrate progress in improving primary care, while the Royal College of GPs says it shows that pressure on practices is becoming even more intolerable.

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Practice Index

JUNE 13, 2024

Flawed appointments measure shelved Practices had risked losing thousands of pounds because they could not provide accurate data on appointments for indicator ACC-08. The IGPM had warned NHS England of a “significant flaw” in one of the appointment management systems.

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Practice Index

JULY 18, 2024

However, fewer than half reported it being easy to contact their practice and 34% said they waited too long for an appointment. said their needs were met at their last appointment. A round-robin letter states: “We really cannot continue to run on fumes. In the survey, 89.9%

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Extend consultation times, GPs told GPs should increase appointment lengths to 15 minutes and ‘cease all non-contractual work’, according to guidance issued by the BMA’s English GP committee as part of the protest action in England. Despite this, practices are offering record breaking numbers of appointments.

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Practice Index

JUNE 6, 2024

million appointments, according to NHS England. In April, two thirds of appointments (nearly 20 million) took place in person. The party says it wants to divert 20 million appointments from practices to pharmacies, expanding Pharmacy First. Practice activity up on pre-pandemic period In April, practices in England delivered 30.5

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Practice Index

MARCH 14, 2024

Record appointments “unsustainable”? NHS England reports that practices delivered a record number of appointments last year. million appointments – that’s 20% more than the previous month. There were 360 million appointments over 12 months, which is 53 million more than in 2019. In January, practices provided 32.5

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Practice Index

AUGUST 1, 2024

New pledge to “fix” primary care The data for June shows continuing pressure on primary care services, with a small improvement in patients not attending for practice appointments and 70% of appointments taking place within a week of their being booked. The proposed 6% would mean practices getting an extra 4.1% on top of the 1.9%

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Practice Index

JULY 25, 2024

Practices kept going with pen and paper last Friday and continued to struggle with a backlog of appointments and other work this week. Practices were badly hit by the CrowdStrike failure, which led to appointment systems and EMIS being inaccessible. It said: “NHS England must find a way to compensate practices for costs incurred.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Continuity reduces demand for appointments Good continuity of care in general practice could reduce consultations by about 5%, according to analysis published in ‘Management Science’. Same-day hubs planned for London A second area of England has unveiled plans for “same-day hubs” to triage patients seeking practice appointments.

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Practice Index

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Primary care to get new Chief Inspector A Chief Inspector of primary care is to be appointed as part of CQC reforms. The post Primary care news round-up (10th October to 16th October 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. Meanwhile, the overall waiting list increased to 7.64

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Practice Index

OCTOBER 3, 2024

NHS England wants practices to appoint patient safety leads and to use a Learn from Patient Safety Events service to record incidents of harm. The post Primary care news round-up (26th September to 2nd October 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. It also says staff should have access to “freedom to speak up guardians”.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The dashboard contains details of rising numbers of appointments, declining patient satisfaction and NHS financial support for practices. According to the party’s manifesto, a Labour government would guarantee face-to-face appointments for patients and deliver a “modern” booking system to “end the 8am scramble”.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Implementation was included in the GP contract as a key factor in helping practices handle appointments. This contrasts with practices handling 34,000 more appointments daily than five years ago. The post Primary care news round-up (9th to 15th February 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. per 100,000 people.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. I came to her room for rounds in the morning. “We have to take her to court,” her social worker said after rounds. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Admissions 241

Practice Index

JUNE 27, 2024

Steve Russell, NHS Director of Vaccinations and Screening, said: “We have set an ambitious target of eliminating cervical cancer within the next two decades and we are doing everything we can to achieve our ambition by making it as easy as possible to make appointments, and continuing to send invites and reminders to all eligible women.”

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 7, 2025

Real-world use case: RPA technologies like speech-to-text tools and automated appointment reminders reduce administrative burden in healthcare and lighten the load for busy healthcare providers. The software also provides an Appointment Scheduler feature that creates, edits, and finds patient appointments.

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Practice Builders

APRIL 25, 2024

A successful practice’s ability to schedule patient appointments effectively is essential in the dynamic healthcare industry. At Practice Builders, we recognize how important the role of scheduling medical appointments is in the healthcare system. Why is effective patient appointment scheduling important nowadays?

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

Demonstrating the blur between hospitals, insurance and pharma, Civica Rx appointed Martin VanTrieste, formerly Chief Quality Officer at Amgen, as CEO. Other investors in the round were Amgen Ventures, Celgene Health, Echo Health Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Gary Loveman who most recently was in management at Aetna.

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We Care Online

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Introducing morning huddles can help your team to feel more included in the company and provides the perfect opportunity for you to update your team on important information. Another task that can really add to your team’s workload is the scheduling and re-scheduling of appointments.

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Northwest Suburban College

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

On the administrative side, you will be trained in tasks like scheduling appointments, managing medical records, and handling billing and insurance forms.

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Top Practices

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It requires a dedicated and coordinated team of “professionals” to provide the best care for patients before their appointment, at their appointment and after their appointment. Morning huddles are the perfect team meetings to ensure everyone is up to date and on the same page to start the day out right.

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Northwest Suburban College

JUNE 14, 2024

They help patients understand their care plan, provide instructions for medication usage or procedures, and assist with scheduling appointments for follow-up visits, contributing to better patient outcomes. Patient Education and Follow-up Care Medical Assistants play a crucial role in patient education and follow-up care.

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Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Scheduling Appointments One common job duty of medical assistants is to schedule patient appointments, either over the phone, via email or portal, or in person. If over the phone or in person, this involves taking the patient’s name, date of birth, preferred appointment times, and sometimes insurance information.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 20, 2022

Observing Carter sharing his experience with local students during clinical rounds, an impressed faculty member urged him to add teaching to his skill-set. You were appointed last June as a human rights commissioner for Detroit District 5. What are your responsibilities with this appointment? How did that come about?

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The scan of Mr W’s left lung revealed a complicated bulla (a rounded air-filled space in the lung, often found in emphysema and COPD, which has been linked to lung cancer in some cases1,2). That fall, in November 2020, Mr W had a telehealth appointment with Dr P. Dr P was Mr W’s pulmonologist at the VA medical center.

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